Stories written by Mel Frykberg
Mel Frykberg began her journalism career reporting on unrest in black townships, including Soweto, in South Africa during the apartheid era. She later worked as a journalist in Sydney, Australia. Mel has worked as a journalist in the Middle East for over a decade. She has reported for a number of major international publications from Gaza, Jerusalem, Beirut, Cairo, and Amman where she has lived. Mel also edited local magazines and newspapers in the region and is a frequent commentator on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict on National Public Radio in the United States. Frykberg studied journalism in the U.K.

MIDEAST: Unrest Rising Over Goldstone Report

By Mel Frykberg
The Palestinian Authority (PA) is trying desperately to contain the political fallout following its decision to withdraw support for a UN report into war crimes committed in Gaza in December and January.

MIDEAST: Riots May Point to Third Palestinian Uprising

By Mel Frykberg
Palestinian politicians and Israeli political analysts are warning of a third Palestinian Intifadah following serious rioting in East Jerusalem last Sunday.

MIDEAST: More Palestinian Children Getting Jailed

By Mel Frykberg
Eight children between the ages of 10 and 17 were arrested and detained by Israeli soldiers during military raids Monday night and Tuesday morning in the northern West Bank cities Nablus and Qalqilia.

MIDEAST: Textbooks Become a Dream

By Mel Frykberg
A chronic shortage of school supplies, and severely overcrowded classrooms are crippling Gaza's educational system as tens of thousands of children begin a new school year.

MIDEAST: Gaza’s Water Supply Near Collapse

By Mel Frykberg
The International Committee of the Red Cross has warned that Gaza's access to safe supply of drinking water could cease at any time. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says outbreaks of disease could be triggered as a consequence.

MIDEAST: Unrest Brewing Beneath Gaza Calm

By Mel Frykberg
The mile-long stretch that divides Israel's Erez border crossing into northern Gaza from the Hamas police border post is eerily quiet. But the mountains of rubble, twisted metal and craters which remain following Israel's intensive bombing campaign in January serve as a stark reminder that war between the two bitter enemies is still a possibility.

MIDEAST: Business Seeks Ways Past Political Impasse

By Mel Frykberg
Business between the Palestinian Authority and Israel is growing despite the political impasse over Israel's refusal to cease illegal settlement building in East Jerusalem and the Palestinian West Bank.

MIDEAST: Israelis Target Medical Teams

By Mel Frykberg
Fourteen-year-old Muhammad Nayif's mother broke down as she spoke to IPS. Nayif died after being shot three times in the chest by Israeli soldiers Monday night.

MIDEAST: East Jerusalem Shuts Out Thousands of Prayers

By Mel Frykberg
The future of East Jerusalem and of Palestinian access to it has again been brought under the spotlight.

MIDEAST: ‘United’ Jerusalem Has Two Faces

By Mel Frykberg
Israel says "united" Jerusalem will be the eternal capital of the Jewish state. However, a quick walk across the Green Line which marks the international border dividing the two parts of the city reveals a city very much divided.

MIDEAST: Critical Healthcare Fails to Recover

By Mel Frykberg
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that unless the siege of Gaza is lifted and a political solution implemented, Gaza's badly damaged health system will go from very bad to worse.
Nadia Hanoun with some of her family. Credit: Mel Frykberg

MIDEAST: Settlers Push Palestinians to Sleep on the Street

By Mel Frykberg
Israel's continued policy of Judaising East Jerusalem in order to establish facts on the ground before the future of that part of the city is decided, has left dozens of Palestinians homeless and sleeping on the streets.

MIDEAST: Embattled Hamas Shows its Moderate Face

By Mel Frykberg
The Islamic resistance movement Hamas's rule of Gaza is facing protracted political and military opposition from within Gaza, other Palestinian territories and abroad.

MIDEAST: New Blood Invigorates Fatah Leadership

By Mel Frykberg
Despite internal divisions, much criticism and against enormous odds, the Fatah movement has emerged from its Sixth Revolutionary Council here with new blood in its leadership and hopes for a fresh agenda.

MIDEAST: Tensions Rise on Israel’s North

By Mel Frykberg
The war of words between Israel and the Lebanese resistance movement Hizbullah has heated up in the last week, raising fears that another war between Lebanon and Israel is imminent.

MIDEAST: Peace in Balance as Fatah Fights for Survival

By Mel Frykberg
Fatah, the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), is fighting for its very survival as the movement faces implosion, and attacks from all sides. The issues have come to the fore at the sixth revolutionary council of the party that began in Bethlehem Tuesday.

MIDEAST: Traumatised Children Struggle to Rise Again

By Mel Frykberg
Tens of thousands of children in Gaza are still suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) following Israel's three-week bombing December- January.

MIDEAST: Two Police States, No Solution

By Mel Frykberg
What remains of Palestinian civil rights is rapidly being eroded by the dictorial Palestinian governments that respectively control the divided Palestinian territories.

MIDEAST: Rampaging Settlers Shatter Fragile Calm

By Mel Frykberg
The northern Palestinian West Bank is turning into a flashpoint as Israeli settlers continue to attack Palestinian civilians and their property as part of a "price tag" policy.

MIDEAST: Settlers Grow and Advance

By Mel Frykberg
A little village nestled in a valley between several hills in the Bethlehem governorate is today fighting for survival.

MIDEAST: Israeli Spy Ring Threatens Fragile Peace

By Mel Frykberg
The UN Security Council has warned that the existence of a large Israeli-run espionage network in Lebanon could threaten a fragile peace established between the two countries following the end of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war.
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